The Road & Track Driving Experience

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If soaking up the performance figures in our Road Test Data Panels from acceleration to skidpad isn't enough for you, we've developed a driving program with Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch near Las Vegas, Nevada, that teaches you many of the techniques we use in gathering our numbers.

In addition to mirroring our test format, the two-day program has been tailored by Rick Malone, Spring Mountain's Driving School Director, to include the fundamentals of threshold braking, accident avoidance, heel-and-toe downshifting as well as timed autocross and open-lapping sessions, the last after some lead-follow exercises on the road course.

The school uses , and , all great-handling cars in their own right. And in one of the more novel elements of the R&T Driving Experience, onboard test equipment audibly tells you your peak g forces while lapping the skidpad and safely learning about understeer and oversteer.

The course's goal is twofold—making you a better, safer driver and imparting a greater sense of how we collect data, and hence a better understanding and appreciation of the cars we test.